Baran Ozkan spent 15 months looking for software that did not exist. As head of financial-crime product at a European bank, he wanted a single tool to catch money laundering and fraud. Vendors overpromised. His own employer tried to build one in-house and failed. So he built it himself. His startup, Flagright, has now raised […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A decade after it began as France’s answer to the world’s great tech shows, VivaTech has become the place where Europe makes its case for the future, and the 2026 edition was its most confident yet. Every June, a corner of south-west Paris turns into the busiest crossroads in European technology. VivaTech is the continent’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A US investor wants to buy into China’s most successful AI-video company. The timing could hardly be more awkward. General Atlantic is in talks to lead the first outside funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, Bloomberg reported. Kling is seeking more than $2bn at a valuation of $18bn, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Isaiah Granet spent three weeks at Y Combinator getting turned down by 180 investors. Their reason was always the same: phone calls would not exist in a year. He has now raised more than $100mn to prove them wrong. His startup, Bland, has closed a $50mn Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, Fortune reported. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Until last week, about 200 organisations could use a preview of Anthropic’s most capable model, Mythos. They got in through a programme called Glasswing, after the system flagged thousands of software vulnerabilities. Then, on the evening of 12 June, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off every foreign national, anywhere. The company could […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Europe’s retailers would like the law to make an exception for them. AI-generated advertising should be carved out of the European Union’s incoming transparency rules, a retail association has argued, according to Reuters, taking aim at provisions that would require companies to label commercial content produced by artificial intelligence before those rules begin to bite […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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When Washington ordered Anthropic to shut off access to its most advanced AI model, it did not shut off everyone. Some of the organisations Anthropic had chosen early to test Mythos have kept their access to a preview of the system, even as other versions went dark under a US export directive, according to a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta has signed new deals to draw computing power from Crusoe, the data-centre developer, adding to the vast and growing pile of infrastructure the company is assembling for its AI ambitions. The agreements cover two sites, in Childress, Texas, and Warrenton, Missouri, and will give Meta roughly 1.6 gigawatts of capacity between them, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Higgsfield, the AI video startup valued at $1.3 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the first enterprise-ready autonomous agent framework for marketing automation. Supercomputer 2.0, built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit and powered by Nemotron models, adds safety controls and granular permissioning to a platform the company says is already used to create campaigns for 390 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Uber has cleared the last regulatory hurdle to buying Getir’s delivery business in Turkey. The country’s Competition Board approved the US company’s acquisition of the delivery arm from Getir’s Emirati controlling shareholder, Mubadala, on Friday, ending a review that began when the deal was struck in February and clearing the way for Uber to deepen […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hyundai is preparing to buy out the last piece of Boston Dynamics it does not already own. The South Korean carmaker plans to acquire SoftBank’s remaining 9.65% stake in the US robotics firm for $325m, a deal that would make the maker of the Atlas humanoid a wholly owned Hyundai subsidiary, according to a newspaper […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The bottleneck in the AI buildout is turning out to be a metal most people have never heard of. China has tightened its scrutiny of exports of indium phosphide, a compound essential to the high-speed optical chips that move data inside AI data centres, in a move that threatens to slow the very infrastructure the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday launched its first data centres in France, opening two availability zones in Paris as part of a broader push into a European market that is rapidly reassessing its dependency on foreign cloud providers. The facilities make France Alibaba Cloud’s third European hub, after Germany, where it has operated since 2016, and Britain. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Ohio can require social media companies to get a parent’s permission before letting children under 16 onto their platforms, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday, reviving a law the tech industry had managed to freeze. The decision from the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court that had blocked the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Meta is asking Congress for something it cannot win in court: protection from the lawsuits that accuse its products of harming children. The company has been lobbying lawmakers for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to platforms such as Instagram, according to people familiar with the effort, as it faces thousands of suits from young […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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For two days, SpaceX was one of the five most valuable companies on Earth. On Thursday, the market began to reconsider. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite company fell more than 6%, last trading down 6.5% at $178.50, as the frenzy that followed the largest initial public offering in history started to cool. The drop was […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The licences, published by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, cover exports by Circles BG to government buyers in Azerbaijan, Serbia, Malaysia, Mexico, the UAE, and at least […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut, announced the launch of an AI Center of Excellence alongside a strategic partnership with Flare AI. The centre will serve as the hub for AI strategy, governance, and execution across the bank’s personal, commercial, and digital operations. The partnership is structured around outcomes rather than […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Spotify on Wednesday launched Reserved by Spotify, turning the concert ticketing concept it unveiled last month into a live product. The feature automatically holds up to two concert tickets for Premium subscribers based on their listening habits, making Spotify the first audio streaming platform to offer dedicated pre-sale ticket access. The first artist to participate is indie-pop […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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UPS detailed a slate of AI-powered logistics initiatives on Wednesday, including a real-time digital twin of its entire global network that updates every 10 minutes. The system creates a digital replica of facilities, air and ground networks, and end-to-end package flows. It continuously tracks performance so the network can adjust and, in UPS’s words, “self-heal […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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